Klarinet Archive - Posting 000859.txt from 2002/03

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Pat Smith writes about David Peck
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 13:26:42 -0500

You know what annoys me, Dan? That by the time I'm your age, I STILL won't
have as many funny stories to tell as you do! Combine that with the fact
that Ricardo is two years younger than I, and the urge to hang myself in the
men's bathroom becomes ever more compelling!

~ Neil

--- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
> She said: "Anything about David Peck, who once was with the San Diego
> Symphony, and is now with the Houston Symphony. Attention to detail.
> And then some. What an incredibly fine musician and player - and a
> wonderful human being."
>
> I have a funny David Peck story, but it's nice.
>
> David had been selected to play 1st in San Diego but the manager of the
> Houston Symphony (from which he was coming) did not agree to let him go
> before a certain date, and that was too late for the SDSO. The
> manager's name is "Toeplitz" and he is now in Pittsburgh managing the
> PSO.
>
> Anyway, I had played with the SDSO (Tony Pay conducted) and had heard
> about the problem of them being unable to get Peck until a date that
> they considered too late. Later I was having dinner with Uri Toeplitz,
> former principle flute in the Israel Philharmonic and father of Toeplitz
> from Houston (now Pittsburgh) at his home in Tel Aviv. We were chatting
> about this and that when, suddenly the phone rang. It was Toeplitz in
> Houston calling his father.
>
> And just as the conversation winded down, I asked Uri if he would let me
> speak to his son. So he handed the phone to me and I said, "Why won't
> you let Peck go to San Diego now?"
>
> The phone went silent. Finally, a very surprised Toeplitz said, "How
> does someone visiting my father in Tel Aviv know that I won't let Peck
> go from Houston?"
>
> I said, "I'm psychic!!"
>
> We all were in hysterics about that coincidence!!
>
> Dan
>
>
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> ** Dan Leeson **
> ** leeson0@-----.net **
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